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death_n	day_n	die_v	judgement_n	4,265	5	6.1046	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27223	Magnalia naturæ, or, The philosophers-stone lately exposed to public sight and scale being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus, the late famous projection-maker at the emperours court at Vienna, came by and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection by projecting with it before the emperour and a great many witnesses, selling it &c. for some years past / by John Joachim Becher : published at the request, and for the satisfaction of several curious, especially of Mr. Boyl &c.	Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682.	1680 (1680)	Wing B1643; ESTC R28897	23,850	38

entertained F. Wenceslaus at his Court and committed him to the Care and Inspection of Count Wallestein the Imperial Governor of Hatschirr About this time the Post-master above-mentioned dyed also F. Wenceslaus being thus received into the Emperours Protection had his Lodgings assigned him by the Imperial Bowling-Green where he made some Tryals before the Emperour and Count Austin of Wallestein his Guardian and in the Pallace of the Johannites in the Carinthian-street he made one of 15 Marks as they say out of which Transmutations the Count Wallestein made him a Gold Chain to keep in perpetual Memory of the thing Moreover he did deposite some of his Tincture in the Court for augmentation and as farr as I can judge by the Process dlivered to me he had a great desire to get the Mercury of Silver how far he proceeded in it I do not certainly know but some affirm that he made some progress therein In the mean time he both desired to be acquainted with some noted Chymists and eminent Artists and several Imposters and Sophisters intruded themselves into his acquaintance so that from thence resulted very frequent junketings drinkings and merry meetings and many foolish trifling Processes wrought by him from whence F. Wenceslaus learned rather several cunning and subtil Impostures than any real augmentation of his Pouder But the noise multitude of so many Importunate Visitants being cumbersom at Court where F. Wenceslaus had his Diet under the severe inspection of Count Wallestein he thereupon pretended that he had occasion to make some sorts of Aqua Forts and other Menstruums which would be dangerous to the whole Court and cause such noysom Fumes and odious Smells that they could not safely be prepared in that place therefore a Laboratory was built for him in the Carinthian Fort where the Emperors chief Engineer did dwell his name was Fischer a great lover of Alchymy and who shewed himself very officious to him assisting him to build strange and most nonsensical Furnaces which can ever be seen and besides being not a little pleased with his good fortune of the neighbourhood and acquaintance of the Owner of so rich a Tincture but this intimacy lasted not long as the event soon made appear for when F. Wenceslaus had scarcely well fixed his habitation and setled his things in order the Engineer was forced to leave the splendid dwelling there assigned him by the Emperour and to go to Javarin in Hungary to dwell there his Wife also as some give out being vitiated into the bargain F. Wenceslaus also fell very sick and he that waited upon him in his Chamber dyed suddenly not without some suspicion of Poyson and he himself also lay without any hopes of recovery in this case J. A. C. P. C. L. de S. who before had bought some of the Tincture of him and had paid him for it a thousand Ducats designing to take this opportunity of his illness and decease so apparent and so to get and enjoy his Tincture without money sent to him one Biliot a French Physician to steal from him under pretence of a Visit both the said thousand Ducats and the rest of the Tincture Fortune did favour him as to the first part of his Design but in the latter she did fail and dissappoint him for F. VVenceslaus had hid his Tincture more carefully than his thousand Ducats at last the Sick man contrary to all mens exspectation began to Recover and F. Francis who was sent to Rome to obtain a Dispensation for him to absolve him from his Vow having obtained the same returned home whereupon presently F. VVenceslaus laying aside his Monks Habit took a Wife and was married publickly to one named Angerlee who had ministred to him in his sickness and had otherwise been very assistant to him when he wanted her she was a very subtil and crafty woman yet accounted at Vienna but little better than a common Harlot and she was the worse thought on because her Sister had been naught with B. D. L. and by his advice and assistance had caused her Husband to be made away for which Fact he the said B. D. L. was Sentenced to Death but though afterwards pardoned by the Emperour yet was deprived of all his Dignities degraded of his Nobility and cast into perpetual Prison in the Citadel of Gratz where he dyed Miserably and his Whore F. VVenceslaus's Wives Sister was the same day to be Beheaded in open Court before the Judgement Hall the Scaffold and all the rest being already prepared but by the intercession of the Wife of Castell Rodrigo the Spanish Embassador she was set free yet afterward upon the account of her leud life and dishonest Practises she was kil'd with a Pistol-shot Fr. VVenceslaus being linked by Marriage into such a Family did then fancy for a time That all the Elements did conspire together to make him happy for why he was visited by Persons of the highest Rank and withal was mightily respected by the most eminent Ladies Countesses and Princesses As for me as Spectator of this Scene I considered him in this Fools Paradise Whilst it put me in mind of Cornelius Agrippa who in his Book of the Vanity of Sciences under the Title of Alchymy sayes That if ever he should be Master of the Tincture he would spend it all in nothing but in VVhoring for women being naturally covetous he could thereby easily make them to prostitute themselves and to yield unto his Lust And it seems that not only F. VVenceslaus was so mighty a Proficient and so stout a Souldier in the School of VENUS That he was brought very low by the French Disease but also that his Wife Angerlee dyed of it After whose decease Fr. VVenceslaus exceeded all Bounds of honest Modesty and dayly let loose the Reins to all sinful and voluptuous excesses for from that time he had obtained the Tincture he spent in two or three years time more than Ten Myriads of Crowns in all manner of Luxury and he foresaw well enough that it could not last and subsist long at that rate for the Tincture would not maintain him And to turn it into Gold or sell it for a small price would turn to no Account as he had alwaies hoped it would by Augmentation and thereby to gain an inexhaustible Treasure But on the one hand his Want and Necessity was such and on the other hand the Solicitings of those who would buy of his Powder were so importunate that he could not resist so great Temptations And therefore between both he resolved upon a dishonest Shift which was to sell for great Rates Poudred Cinnabar red Lead and the Caput Mortuum of Aqua fortis boyled and such other Ingredients in stead of the true Pouder mixing also therewith some few Filings of Copper that Foolish ignorant People might mistake the same for a Gold-making Pouder to some he sold it without any such Cozening Addition as Coppar And if they were not able to tinge

Examination of this Tinging Powder that I have employed it all in order to its multiplication to try whether it might be augmented for the greater Benefit and Advantage of his Majesty However we may both be sheltred under the Continuance of the Emperors Protection and yet we may keep the Tincture And after the time designed for its augmentation is elapsed we will easily devise some colorable Excuse to evade it as That the Glass was broken or some Error committed in the Operation For the Truth is said he The Emperours Court is not worthy so great a Treasure it will be Prostituted there and made common But to ingage they self to me in a greater degree of Faithfulness Thou must not refuse to give me half the Tincture and we will take a mutual Oath to be faithful one to the other as long as we live and for what now hath passed between us it shall be buried in perpetual oblivion The Emperor shall never know any thing of it neither shall he ever have any of the Tincture Fr. Wenceslaus was fain to make an Agreement on those Terms which vvere dravvn up in writing subscribed with both their hands and confirmed by their mutual Oaths and so the Tincture vvas divided betvvixt them The Count made a Tryal by himself alone the next day vvith some of his proportion thereof to try vvhether he had not been deceived therein but he found it Right and good Having staid a vvhile at this Country House he vvas about to return to Vienna but he vvas taken so grievously sick of a fit of the Gout that out of the intollerable Torment vvhich he felt he drank some Aurum Potabile vvhich Burrhy had given him heretofore but vvith this Caution That it vvas not yet perfect Having tasted a fevv drops thereof he presently felt a most grievous and vehement pain in his Joynts so that he could hardly perform his Journey vvith Fr. Wenceslaus to Vienna But the first night after his coming he vvas so afflicted vvith heat that all his Entralls seemed to be on a Flame as he complained himself The Day follovving his Physician the Son of Dr. Sorbat vvhose Name vvas Kreisset vvho vvas also Physician to the Emperors Army vvas sent for vvho considering his present Condition applyed the properest remedies he could which availed him nothing but bad Symptoms did so grow upon him that the third day his Case was judged desperate The Count himself also being sensible of his Death approaching caused his Brother the Master of the Post-Office to the Emperor Count Peter de Paar his only heir for the sick Brother was a Batchelour to be sent for about night to whom he spoke in these Words It was foretold to me heretofore in Italy That I should obtain the Tincture and That soon after I should dye The first part of the Prophecy is fulfilled and the latter is near at hand to be accomplished I know That you have bestowed as much time and Expence in this Art as my self I have nothing more valuable to leave you and which nothing can be more acceptable to you than a Notable Portion of Tincture which I have sealed up in this Desk and shall entrust it in the hand of my Confessor who upon my decease shall deliver it to you After which words he delivered the Desk to his Confessor who was present and heard him speak them Count Peter not imagining his Brother was so near his End took his leave of him for that Night and rode home because it was very late And his Brother soon after departing this Life his Confessor also took Coach and went home to the Monastery of St. Francis not far distant from the Emperial Post Office at Vienna The Death of the Deceased Count being signified to his Brother by his Footmen who had accompanied the Confessor home The Count immediately rose out of his Bed being but newly entred thereinto and clothing himself gallopped at two of the clock in the morning to the Monastery of the Franciscans and after he had knock'd fiercely at the Gate for admittance the drowsy Porter arose and let him in the Count desired to be admitted to the Speech of the Confessor of his newly deceased Brother but it was reply'd It was an unseasonable time for such a Visit in regard the old man was weak and weary and being newly returned home was laid down to rest The Count was not satisfi'd with this Answer but was very earnest with the Porter to accompany him and some of his Attendants to the old Fathers Cell he making Excuses the Count rushed in presently himself and awak'd him demanding the Desk which his Brother had deposited in his hands as now rightfully belonging unto him The Father was much surprized at his fuddain irruption and demand which he did the more suspect because it was made at such an unseasonable time of the night whereupon he desir'd the Count to hold himself contented till the Morning and then he should have the Desk delivered unto him without fail only he desired to deliver it in before the Father Guardian and that he would then give him his acquittance for the Recept thereof The Count not content with this Answer by the help of his Attendants and Servants endeavored to get it from him by force Whereupon a Tumult arose The Watch was sent for the Monks were also gathered together and a Spanish Bp. of the same Order the Confessor of the Empress Margaret then lodging in the Monastery was also roused out of his sleep who hearing such a tumultuous Noise in the Monastery a priviledged place was so much concernd thereat that he enquired into the occasion whilst the Count was yet present and understanding that it arose upon the score of a sealed Desk he demanded it of the Father who had it in keeping which having received from him the next morning he carried it with him to the Emperor and complained grievously against the Count as being the occasion of that nights Uproar In the mean time as soon as it was day the noise hereof was spread all over the City and among the rest it reached the Ears of F. Wenceslaus who presently hastned to Court and by means of the Empress's Confessor obtaining Audience he related to the Emperor the whole Story how the Count had used him in Hungary how he had extorted from him half the Tincture how he was necessitated by a forced Agreement not to discover any thing hereof whilst he was living but was now free from the Obligation of his Oath by the Counts Death that he was very glad that the Tincture was at length come into the Hands of the right Owner his Imperial Majesty for whom he had long before designed it he did therefore now implore nothing more of his Imperial Majesty but that he would afford him his Protection against the Violence of Count Peter Paar his Postmaster and his Adherents The Emperor perceiving the wonderful Series of this Affair presently